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9:30 PM ET, February 20, 2011

Top Items:

12K State Workers Could Be Fired Without Budget Deal, Wisconsin Governor Warns — Saturday: Protesters gather down State Street in Madison, Wis., after a rally outside the Wisconsin State Capitol. A few dozen police officers stood between supporters of GOP Gov. Scott Walker on the muddy east lawn …

Discussion: TPMDC, Doug Ross, National Review, Don Surber, Cubachi, Pundit Press and JammieWearingFool

Washington Examiner:
Battle of Wisconsin threatens unions' political might

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Conservatives4Palin

Robert Costa / National Review: Walker: ‘We are willing to take this as long as it takes’

Meredith Shiner / Reuters:
Protesters, impasse remain in Madison

Discussion: Pundit & Pundette

Pejman Yousefzadeh / A Chequer-Board of Nights …:
Everyone Should Have Seen This Coming

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, POWIP, The Other McCain, The TrogloPundit, Prairie Weather, GayPatriot and New York Times

BBC:

Libya unrest: Scores killed in Benghazi ‘massacre’ — Details have emerged of huge casualty figures in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where troops have launched a brutal crackdown on protesters. — More than 200 people are known to have died, doctors say, with 900 injured.

Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Reaction, Guardian, The Jawa Report, Outside the Beltway, Libya February 17th and Truthdig

Ian Black / Guardian:

Libya on the brink as protests hit Tripoli — Muammar Gaddafi's son warns of civil war in state television address as regime tries to halt uprising — Muammar Gaddafi's son went on Libyan TV to defend his father's 41-year rule of Libya as protests spread to the capital Tripoli.

Discussion: The Hill, Harry's Place, Pajamas Media and The Gateway Pundit

Aljazeera:

Libya clashes spread to Tripoli — Clashes between anti-government protesters and Gaddafi supporters escalate as army unit ‘defects’ in Benghazi. — Security forces have shot dead scores of protesters in Libya's second largest city, where residents said a military unit had joined their cause.

Discussion: Firedoglake and The Daily Dish

News: News blog:
Arab and Middle East protests - as they happened

Discussion: Guardian, The Daily Dish and Truthdig

Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Libyan forces fire on mourners at funeral again

Discussion: Guardian, Associated Press and AMERICAblog News

CNN:
Libyan leader's son proposes major reforms — unless unrest continues

Discussion: BBC, The Jawa Report and New York Magazine

Reuters:
Libyan forces fight Benghazi protesters, 100 dead

Discussion: Obsidian Wings, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, Firedoglake, The Independent, Arabist.net and BBC

Irish_Grinder / New York Post:

Topics — Salsumba: so who from Columbia was going to walk into Bagdada and “just arrest” Sadaam? Maybe you? You sir/ma'am are an illiformed nitwit. — SSGT Maschek< you are outstanding! These Columbia BD's are so smart they are stupid.......

Discussion: Power Line, Michelle Malkin, The Jawa Report, Instapundit, Weasel Zippers, Moonbattery, JammieWearingFool, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Atlas Shrugs, Moe Lane and American Power

Dana Pico / Common Sense Political Thought:

The students at Columbia University have an absolute right to express their opinions . . . . . . and so do I: some of them are worth less than the remnants of dinner I flushed down the toilet this morning. From the … More at the link. — Columbia University is a private school …

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications

E.S. Browning / Wall Street Journal:

Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short — The 401(k) generation is beginning to retire, and it isn't a pretty sight. — The retirement savings plans that many baby boomers thought would see them through old age are falling short in many cases. — The median household headed …

Discussion: ParaPundit, Balloon Juice, Vox Popoli and FrumForum

Angella Johnson / Daily Mail:

I was a mob sex attack victim in Tahrir Square... just like Lara Logan — I was especially horrified to read of CBS journalist Lara Logan's sex ordeal as she reported on Egyptians celebrating the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak - because I too was a victim.

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and JOSHUAPUNDIT

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Stars and Sewers — Rarely have we seen such epic clashes between …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Prairie Weather

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

The Yuppie Revolution In Egypt Is Over, The Islamist Revolution Has Begun — When it came to overthrowing Hosni Mubarek, the western media thrust itself into the situation and portrayed the uprising as a western-style demand for freedom. — The television screens were filled with stories …

Discussion: Power Line, Israel Matzav and PoliPundit.com

Anchorage Daily News:

Former aide rips Palin in leaked book manuscript — UNPUBLISHED: Former governor broke election law, Bailey alleges. — A leaked manuscript by one of Sarah Palin's closest aides from her time as governor charges that Palin broke state election law in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign …

Discussion: Washington Post and George's Bottom Line

Campbell Robertson / New York Times:

Marking Davis's Confederate Inauguration — MONTGOMERY, Ala. — One hundred and fifty years and one day later, the South did it again. — Before a cheering crowd of several hundred men and women, some in period costume and others in crisp suits, an amateur actor playing Jefferson Davis …

Discussion: Mock, Paper, Scissors and FrumForum

thenorthwestern.com:

Video: Watch State Rep. Gordon Hintz's speech on Assembly floor Friday night — Whether there had been one camera, a dozen or had he been in a room with just his fellow lawmakers, Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, believes his reaction would have been the same.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Gschwarzcnn / CNN:

Schumer: Republicans ‘clamoring’ for government shutdown — Washington (CNN) - Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York criticized Republican demands to cut spending in a short-term spending resolution that would continue funding the government while negotiations persist on a longer-term plan.

Discussion: The Hill and The Greenroom

Mike Lillis / The Hill:

Lugar opposes House budget bill — A senior Senate Republican on Sunday rejected the spending bill approved by House Republicans on Saturday. — Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said the size of the $61 billion in cuts proposed by the House is “reasonable,” but he wouldn't support the bill as it stands.

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Huffington Post and Outside the Beltway

Myglesias / Yglesias:

Labor Unions and Me — Ezra Klein's weekend question: “Almost forgot! Have you or anyone close to you belonged to a union? How did that change your impressions of organized labor in general?” — I'm generally speaking an out-of-touch pointy headed elite, but as it happens throughout my life my father has been a union member.

Discussion: American Power and L'Hôte